A True Convention Moment

A True Convention Moment

The MSM — and many others — have been weeping and moaning over the staged, predictable, nature of the political conventions for decades. They yearn for the floor flights of yore. Well, a few minutes ago, they came close to having their wishes answered. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, the head of the Democratic National Convention, called for a voice vote to amend the platform to fix the language on Israel and God in the platform. The vote required a two-thirds aye. The first time he couldn’t tell if he got it. The second time the no votes clearly had it. The third time: the nos won again. I’m sitting in the upper decks by the Fox cameras, so I’m in a very good place to hear without being misled by proximity to one faction or another. It was obvious that the nos had it. Still, I suppose it’s possible the ayes were in a bare majority. But there’s simply no way they had a two-thirds majority. I was sitting with a decidedly non-conservative journalist and he was even more sure than me that the no voters won.

If the the MSM was true to either its claims of objectivity — or its own nostalgia — they would be covering this episode as at minimum a major embarrassment and, more fairly, as a serious indication of a party divided over God, Israel, or both.

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